Idaho's hunters aren't exactly howling for wolf tags this season. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game sold 4,717 resident tags and 175 nonresident tags through Tuesday. Before the state's 2009-10 hunt, 4,000 tags sold on the first day and more than 30,000 were sold in total...

Officials at the Sun Valley ski resort in central Idaho say more people hit the slopes this season compared to last year. In a statement on Tuesday, Sun Valley spokesman Jack Sibbach said the ski resort had a 2 percent increase in visitors this year, with a final count of more than 407,500 when the …